Australian Cricket Team. TERMS OF THE TOUIR. (By Telegraph from Our Correspondonts.) •Sydney, January 12. After the day's play at the Sydney cricket-grouom: yesterday, NKoble aoml C. HSll wore shown a cable annloucement of War'ner's letter to the "Westminster G~aoette."' Noble declined to say aly thWirag about the matter, and Hill cont tentoel himeaell wilth sayidng that cone oa thu leading players ever s~ld tOut the M.C.C. would not receive a team firont which they .w·ig excl.udei. Melbouener.Tanuoary ]1. tr. Beanl, a imember of the bo?a?d of control, says lhat tLhe lhoard nare hopeful hlzat zmttters will be satlis?actorily ad Justed eetoen it and tiso players. Armetroazg says that the grie\vance of the playns is that ithe basis i, c rhicih the boand prollposes to divide lthe proit~s 'ill not zisura 'l cecl! Player an ade qute amuoulnt. At a aloetilng. af the Cricket Associa tion loast light, thu cricket dispute was disussn d at ieigtli.

Weather Forecasts. The following fo.rcasts have . bin isc:ued by the jleteoroloicail Bureau or tihe 24 hours. s endng noon to day :- West Australia.-Fine and warm to hot, with iasterly winds tending to eoome cloudy and unsottled in the north-west. Thunderstorms in ths topics. South Ausfralia.--Cloudy generally, aouth-east sind? cool on thie coast, warm and sultry inland" thunrler storms and rein in the coastil dis tricts of the Northern Territory. t jenoslasd.-lCloudy nenrally sloeg tlh coast, assl further thunderstorms and ram in the north-cast and Pen insula districts, dnd in scatter:d Il,,cY4 in the ont~ral district- fino othlr wise: south-east to nqrth-east winds. New South Wales.-Gen5?rally fine in lan, except for some scotter tiLbun derstorses on the hishlands: -ecosm ing cooler over the southern districts; south change along the coastline, with fresh winds, and some shovCrs. Victorin.--Cool and cloudy general ly, with south winds (south to south east) Blowing fresh in the sou...

TEE FEDERAL PREMIER'S: 'ISIT. It should be clearly understood, in con~ction with the visit to tuejs s land, of tiae Hon. A. Fisher, in his Calpcity of Federal Prime tlJinisten. that that geantlemasi' is merely '"mark ing time" so far as any duestion of a political policy is concerned. Sir. De, kin did not take the ueople of Aus tralia into.his confidence at the time when he and his colleagues oiet ly vacated the Treasury benches withl out ever, a feeble struggle, and al loused ir. Fisher and the caucus-elect ed Calinet to take their places. But the nature of the slituffle of the po litical cards that was then Anade Ias since hben exposed to the licrht of slay. Sir. E. S. Carr, one of the New South Wales Lablour members in the House of Representatives, lucidly ex plained the situation in a speceli eo the electors last week. He disclosed the relationship between Sir. Deakin nalnd the Labour party, and denied that Mr. Dalkir. and the , Labourite. had any understanding with a, view to d...

" A Creep" AT BLACKSTO±NE. SOME DA?IMGE DONE. HIOUSES OUT OF rLUMB. EXTEKNSIVE FISSURES IN THE GROUND. At Ibout 9 o'clock last loanday e,\ln ing (writes our Bunidalloua iorrespol dent) Mr. Jacob Davies, a well-knomiwi collier, of Blackstone, was sihtting on hisi back v,randulah. when ie was stlar tli?d byv a lo'd noise as though a gun had been fired \Iff. It being a dark night lr. D)avie) s was unable tl lil: out the cause of the noise, but I' stated that it came from thi, roof. li thi moraini wlei hlie awoke alnd irent ,outside to investi-. t'. hle noticed lak'cs. craclks in the gurface.of the groinid. and the ?loof which divides his main house from a large extension was shit t ?, and apparently Ibrikc in the ai.ntre, giving it a hest a'jlariianco froiil outside. This was pirobblhy what made the noie whidch had stastled him. O0 miaking further examination it was found that tlie sawn fe?ncing nd gatens in front of his house had beenm shifted out of pIlumb, an?l, in soms Iplaces, ire...

The Italian Earthquake AMIERICAN AND M~ANSION HOUSE .UNDS. RESCUE OF A. WOMAN AND CHILD. A LADYV BODY BECOVEREDO, (By Cable Messeag.) London, January 12. The donations to the relief fund in America amount to £700,000. The Ilus sion House fund now totals £75,000. The steanuer Ophir, on learning of the disaster when shie was approachiog Italy, nmade every preparation for the secold class passngers to be Jua?eerbi with ?te first, and the second-class saloon and smoking rooms thecn were converted into hosplitals. 1Mgh tribscs are paid ?o the assistance rendered by everybody on board. 'The only niidings at Ieggio nililh r-' malned intact -wor ~those built on Dr. Capecci's plan in 1900 with hellos bricks eand with Vertical and horizontUl wires, giving groat elasti?ty. A womuls and a chikl weD o rescued alive at lIessina yesterday. Bluejackets under the commsnned of a Britlish military attaohe at Ionl iave extrientel thle body ol Mrs. A. J. Ogs ton, wife of the. British consul at 3hls sala...